It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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.
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All important things are hard.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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