The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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