A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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