For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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