I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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