Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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 want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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