Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your own stories.
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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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