You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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