Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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