I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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