You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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