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.
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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You are your own stories.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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