The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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