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.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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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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You are your own stories.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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