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Toni Morrison
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the ri...
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passiona...
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ide...
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the...
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, tha...
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
