Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Lonely was much better than 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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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What a woman. What a life.
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