Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You are your own stories.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You are your best thing.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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