Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONThe 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All important things are hard.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You are your best thing.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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You are your own stories.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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