Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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