Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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