Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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