The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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