Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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