The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All important things are hard.
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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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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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