Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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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 want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You are your best thing.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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