Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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What a woman. What a life.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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