If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON
Black 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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your best thing.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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All important things are hard.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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