All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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