The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take 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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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