For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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