Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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All important things are hard.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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