You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your best thing.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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