There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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