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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.

Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
TONI MORRISON

Book Reading Want
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON

Value Women Yourself
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON

Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON

Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISON

Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
TONI MORRISON

Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON

Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISON

Life Woman
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON

Artist Danger She Women
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON

Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself

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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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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