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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISON

Friendship Giving Pieces
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON

Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON

Country White
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISON

Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON

Love Lover
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Women
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON

Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISON

Artist Choose Silence Time Work
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISON

Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
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.
TONI MORRISON

Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISON

Love One Liner
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women

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