I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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