You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONIf 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride 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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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