In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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