Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You are your best thing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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All important things are hard.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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