All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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