All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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All important things are hard.
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