The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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 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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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 art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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