You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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