Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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