Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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