It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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 women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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