You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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All important things are hard.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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