Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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