Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your best thing.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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