Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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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 always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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