The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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