Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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All important things are hard.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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