Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONIf 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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 friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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 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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You are your own stories.
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