As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You are your own stories.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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