Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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All important things are hard.
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