Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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All important things are hard.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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