Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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All important things are hard.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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