I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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All important things are hard.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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 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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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