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.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You are your best thing.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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