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Toni Morrison Quotes

«If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.»
«We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.»
«If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.»
«Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me»
Author: Toni Morrison (Editor, Teacher, Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: beloved, daughter, sister
«All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.»
Author: Toni Morrison (Editor, Teacher, Writer) | Keywords: get back
«How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.»
«Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.»
«As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer»
Author: Toni Morrison (Editor, Teacher, Writer) | Keywords: dreamer
«Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.»
«As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.»

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