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TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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