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 MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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 didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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All important things are hard.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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