Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONThere is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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