For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You are your best thing.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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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 didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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