Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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