You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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