Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONArt invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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