I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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 can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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All important things are hard.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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