All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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What a woman. What a life.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read 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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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