The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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