Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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You are your own stories.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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You are your best thing.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All important things are hard.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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