Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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