It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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You are your best thing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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