You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You are your own stories.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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