For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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