As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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