Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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 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 women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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