If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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