Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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