Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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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.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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