Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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You are your best thing.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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