Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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