You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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