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.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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You are your best thing.
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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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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