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.
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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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