Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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