The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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All important things are hard.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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