My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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All important things are hard.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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