As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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