Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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What a woman. What a life.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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All important things are hard.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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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.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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