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 MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You are your best thing.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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