I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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 there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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