All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONThe 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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You are your best thing.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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