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.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All important things are hard.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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