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.
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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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 paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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