At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You are your own stories.
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