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 MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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All important things are hard.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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