You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISON
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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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