You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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You are your best thing.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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