You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You are your best thing.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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