Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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