Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You are your best thing.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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