Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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