Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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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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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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