You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your best thing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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