From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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