Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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 there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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