You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Wicked 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.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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