Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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