Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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