Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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