You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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