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 MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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