I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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