There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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