You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You are your own stories.
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You are your best thing.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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