If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You are your own stories.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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 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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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