The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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You are your best thing.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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