You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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