Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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