I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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