Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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