You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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