If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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