I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You are your own stories.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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