The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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