As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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