In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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