For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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