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Toni Morrison

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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
AUBREY DE GREY
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's...
MARK MORRIS
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK
Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER
Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON
Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON
Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON
Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE
It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY
Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU
As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN
As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN
We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY
Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ
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
As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD
As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
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 [...] ...
TONI MORRISON
As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE
As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP
You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN
Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON
That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER
Normal? What's that?"

"How you really look."

"Can you take off all your clothe...
KIERSTEN WHITE
Yeah, I got her,” Will confirms.
“Who you got?” I ask.
“You, drunk girl. Come on.�...
KRISTEN PROBY
Will father be there?" she asked.

John turned to her in astonishment.

Your fat...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
<...
PHILIP K. DICK
Most G.M.Os undergo rigorous lab testing to check human and animal tolerance. If something is found ...
JULIAN MORRIS
His obituaries and feature stories about the slain soldiers of the Iraq War are valuable as history,...
MARILYN JOHNSON
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as ...
SADE ADU
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON
As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN
Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX
As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY
As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
GERHARD SCHRODER
I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN
On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen ...
CHARISMA CARPENTER
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER
Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
SANJAY DUTT
As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
ACTION BRONSON
I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE
A child will behave as he has been taught. Tolerance is one of the first lessons to be learnt.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
DAVID OGILVY
It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp ...
CHRISTINA HENRY
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium...
BILLY HIGGINS
Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
REINALDO ARENAS
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art...
QUESTLOVE
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brain...
ADAM DRIVER
I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS
As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
DAN QUINN
With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Becau...
RONY ABOVITZ
As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
MARK WAHLBERG
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
DONALD TRUMP
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely esse...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN

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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
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Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
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You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I ...
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets e...
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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
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Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
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She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have ...
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Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You are your best thing
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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I’m crazy about this City.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
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Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
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you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactles...
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Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
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You looking good."
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When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
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Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

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Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
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They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lov...
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
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That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...
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Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
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Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
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See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
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Her passions were narrow but deep.
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God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
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And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...
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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
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Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven...
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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...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.
TONI BRAXTON
How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON
Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON
Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
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
TONI ALEO
Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.
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