Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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 need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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