I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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All important things are hard.
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