Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You are your own stories.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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