What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You are your own stories.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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