I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All important things are hard.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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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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