We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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