If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You are your best thing.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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