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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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