The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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