But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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