Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All important things are hard.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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