You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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