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Toni Morrison Inspirational Quotes (231)

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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.
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I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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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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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I don't do the things other people call play.
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
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I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
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