We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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