Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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