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.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You are your own stories.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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