A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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