The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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 need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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