Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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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