I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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All important things are hard.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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