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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 Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Dreams Fashion Nightmare
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
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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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Music People

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.

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