Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You are your own stories.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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