But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that 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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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