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.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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You are your own stories.
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All important things are hard.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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