You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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