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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISON

Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON

Feeling Safe Writing
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Enough Life World
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON

Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON

Country White
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.
TONI MORRISON

Concept Enemy Men World
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISON

House Place Writing
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISON

Allow Design Paradise People
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON

Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
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.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISON

Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
TONI MORRISON

Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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