Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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