Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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All important things are hard.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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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