All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You are your best thing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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