Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You are your best thing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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