You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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