You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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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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All important things are hard.
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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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