But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride 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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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