Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All important things are hard.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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You are your own stories.
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