If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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