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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More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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