It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You are your best thing.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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All important things are hard.
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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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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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