All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison

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Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought...

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She is a friend of my mind… The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

—Toni Morrison

In this country "American" means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

—Toni Morrison

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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

—Toni Morrison

The function of freedom is to free somebody else.

—Toni Morrison

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The mattress, curved like a preacher's palm asking for witnesses in His name's sake, enclosed them each and every night and muffled their whispering, old-time love.

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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

—Loudon Wainwright III

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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

—King Solomon

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My great-grandfather… came to Washington with the Union Army during the Civil War. He stopped at my great grandmother's house to get some water and she was the one who handed him the glass of water. He put his hand over hers, and then he got off the horse, and after that, they got married.

—Helen Tenchi

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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