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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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