Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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