For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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You are your best thing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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