Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All important things are hard.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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