What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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All important things are hard.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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