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.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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