You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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