The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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