A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONFor 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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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You are your own stories.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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