For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONThe 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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