Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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