If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I dream a dream that dreams back at 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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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