As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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