There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You are your best thing.
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All important things are hard.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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