You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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