Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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