I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You are your best thing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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