Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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