You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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