For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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All important things are hard.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You are your own stories.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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