You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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