If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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