The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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