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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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