For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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