Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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