The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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