You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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