You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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