I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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