You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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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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You are your own stories.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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