The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONI’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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All important things are hard.
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You are your best thing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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