Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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