Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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