We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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