If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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