You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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 free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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If 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.
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