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 best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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All important things are hard.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
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