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Famous Toni Morrison Quotes
“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.”
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
“When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.”
“Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
“Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.”