Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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