Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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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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