The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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All important things are hard.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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