What difference do it make if the thing you’re scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
~ Toni Morrison

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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
~ Toni Morrison

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~ Toni Morrison

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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison

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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison

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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison

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