Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You are your best thing.
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