But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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