From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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