I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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You are your own stories.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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