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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Toni Morrison

I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON

Feeling Safe Writing
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
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 MORRISON

Book Reading Want
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.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISON

Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISON

Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Music People
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON

Attitude Difference Fashion Motivational Passion Yourself
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 MORRISON

Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISON

Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISON

House Place Writing

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