Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings

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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings are more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves, a special kind of double.

I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it. And I said, But, Daddy, no ones going to see it! And he said, Yeah, but I know its there. So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

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