Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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