Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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 fall in love, I rose in it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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