Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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You are your own stories.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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