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Toni Morrison

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MONTE KWINTER There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
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F. JOHNSON The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
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TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
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ANNA QUINDLEN That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the...
ADAM LANGER Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
LORD BYRON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.
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JUNOT DIAZ Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
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ASSOC PROF AU EONG Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the tim...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .
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BRIAN FISCHER What will make you a star is in you
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HILLARY CLINTON Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
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FERNANDO PESSOA Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
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SUNIL YAPA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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CAROLINE KENNEDY Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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EDWARD ABBEY The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are wit...
JOHN REID Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The universe may for...
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BERNARD HOLLAND The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much...
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TONI MORRISON Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
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TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
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TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.

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TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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TONI MORRISON guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
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TONI MORRISON I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
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TONI MORRISON As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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TONI MORRISON Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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TONI MORRISON You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
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TONI MORRISON Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
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TONI MORRISON When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
TONI MORRISON Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dange...
TONI MORRISON Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

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TONI MORRISON Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
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TONI MORRISON Something that is loved is never lost.
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TONI MORRISON Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
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TONI MORRISON See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
TONI MORRISON Her passions were narrow but deep.
TONI MORRISON God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
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TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
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TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
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TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
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TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
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TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE