I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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What a woman. What a life.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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