When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISONThe enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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All important things are hard.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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