He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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