You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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