Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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What a woman. What a life.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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