Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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What a woman. What a life.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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