Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You are your best thing.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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You are your own stories.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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