The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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