Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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