It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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