You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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