And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You are your best thing.
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