Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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