You are your own stories.
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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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