Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your own stories.
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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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