The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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