Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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What a woman. What a life.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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