The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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