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.
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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You are your best thing.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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