Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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