If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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