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.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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 people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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