The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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All important things are hard.
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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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