Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You are your best thing.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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