Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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