Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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