It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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All important things are hard.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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