Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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