What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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