My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONWicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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