Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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