From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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