Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONTo get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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