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.
TONI MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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