To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONWicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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 die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You are your best thing.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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