The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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