Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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