What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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