Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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 don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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