All important things are hard.
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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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