Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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You are your best thing.
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What a woman. What a life.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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