Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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