I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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