There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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