Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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There 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.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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You are your best thing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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