In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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 boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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