To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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