Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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 always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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All important things are hard.
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