You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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