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 MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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What a woman. What a life.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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