There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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