Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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