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.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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