We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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