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 MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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All important things are hard.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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