Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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