Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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