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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.

Toni Morrison

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Dreams Fashion Nightmare
Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON

Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Music People
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISON

Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISON

Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON

Air Inspirational One Liner Ride Surrender
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Women
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
TONI MORRISON

Concept Enemy Men World
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer

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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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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