It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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