When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Racism 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.
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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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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 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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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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.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read 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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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