Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You are your own stories.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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