To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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