You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You are your best thing.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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All important things are hard.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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