From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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