Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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