All important things are hard.
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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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