You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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