She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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 enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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