From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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