Toni Morrison Short Quotes

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Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

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Only unharnessed hearts
Can survive a locked-down life.

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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

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I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman.

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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

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Laughter is serious: more complicated, more serious than tears.

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Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

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Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

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Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.

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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were an American.

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

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Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

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The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

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Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

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You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

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Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.

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The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.

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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations.

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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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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

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