From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All important things are hard.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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 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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your own stories.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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