I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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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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