Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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You are your best thing.
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All important things are hard.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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