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.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your best thing.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All important things are hard.
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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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You are your own stories.
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