Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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