To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONI 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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