Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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