There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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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 people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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