A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All important things are hard.
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