Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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All important things are hard.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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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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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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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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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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