If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You are your best thing.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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