Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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