I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONTo get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You are your own stories.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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