For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your own stories.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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