Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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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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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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