All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You are your best thing.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your own stories.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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What a woman. What a life.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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