Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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