A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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