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Toni Morrison Quotes

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Toni Morrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 18, 1931

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Me World Problems Single Guns Sense

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

Jess Walter

Work History New York Gift End Look

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Jessamyn West

Nature Memory Will Magnet Hold Pull

Whether you are a man or a woman, when you're loved, you look good and are happier.

Jessica Jung

Good Woman Man Loved You Look

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

People Black Think Talking You Back

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

Andre Geim

Adventure I Am Search Doing You

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Robert M. Pirsig

True More Geometry Cannot Only Than

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

Rob Brydon

Friends Days Still Lots

I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion. Then I stayed with the team in GP2 Asia Series, and again, I became Champion. Then the first year of GP2 was really great. I was P4 at the end of the season, which was a fantastic result.

Romain Grosjean

Great Art Team Champion End Year

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

Rupert Sheldrake

Science Talking Edge Know Way Going

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Own Rational Being How Any Thing

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

Jay DeMarcus

Learning Art Night Out Entertaining

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Jose Gonzalez

Always Get Stamp Frustrating Bit