A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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All important things are hard.
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