For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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All important things are hard.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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