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.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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