Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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