The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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