Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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