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.
TONI MORRISONRacism 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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All important things are hard.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You are your own stories.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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