Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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