You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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