“If it’s true that this is the best time of your life, if you have already lived or are now living at this age the best years, or if the next few turn out to be the best, then you have my condolences. Because you’ll want to remain here, stuck in these so-called best years, never maturing, wanting only to look, to feel and be the adolescent that whole industries are devoted to forcing you to remain.” — Toni Morrison, Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 2004 (2004-05-28)
“Definitions belonged to the definers—not the defined.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
“The point of writing is to take what’s common and estrange it, make it new again, and to take what’s strange and familiarize it.” — Toni Morrison
“The point of writing is to take what’s common and estrange it, make it new again, and to take what’s strange and familiarize it.” — Toni Morrison, “Home,” Authors at Google
“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison
“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
“There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.” — Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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