If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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