The function of freedom is to free someone else.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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