Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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