It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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