Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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