Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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