Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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All important things are hard.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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