Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONRacism 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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