Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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All important things are hard.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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