Something that is loved is never lost.
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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You are your best thing.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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