In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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