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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You are your best thing.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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All important things are hard.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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