Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your best thing.
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All important things are hard.
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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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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