Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You are your own stories.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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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