The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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