The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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