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.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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You are your best thing.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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