Toni Morrison
American · 1931–2019
American novelist and Nobel laureate whose lyrical, unflinching works illuminated the African American experience and the legacy of slavery.
Wikipedia ↗“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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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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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
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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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“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
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