I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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