I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONTo get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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What a woman. What a life.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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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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