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.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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