Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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 sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your best thing.
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