Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Wicked 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.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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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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