There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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All important things are hard.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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