He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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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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