Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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 art is knowing when to stop.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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 people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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