In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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