Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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