You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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