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.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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