Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All important things are hard.
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