A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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 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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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What a woman. What a life.
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