Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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