Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON
You are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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