Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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