Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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All important things are hard.
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