Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You are your own stories.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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