I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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