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 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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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