You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You are your best thing.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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