You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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You are your own stories.
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All important things are hard.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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