I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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