If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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There 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.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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