Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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 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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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