Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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 didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You are your best thing.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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