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.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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What a woman. What a life.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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