You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All important things are hard.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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