I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that our dreams and aspirations have a reciprocal relationship with us. They reach back to shape our identity and influence our actions.
Toni Morrison's quote suggests that the dreams we hold are not just one-sided aspirations; they are alive and dynamic. Our dreams reflect our innermost desires and thoughts, and in turn, they challenge and inspire us to become the person we are meant to be, shaping our reality and experiences. It emphasizes the connection between our dreams and our conscious existence, representing a deeper dialogue between our aspirations and ourselves.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about pursuing one's aspirations.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
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