Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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You are your own stories.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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