For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You are your own stories.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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