All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All important things are hard.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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