“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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Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are *The Bluest Eye*, *Song of Solomon*, and *Beloved*. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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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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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
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“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he...”
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“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
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“We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.”
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“Passion is never enough; neither is skill.”
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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
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“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
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“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like t...”
“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or...”
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“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love y...”
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“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in...”
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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
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“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here,...”
“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”
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“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”
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“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
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