The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISON
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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All important things are hard.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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