Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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 free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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