Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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