I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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