Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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