A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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