If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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