You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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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