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 MORRISONWicked 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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All important things are hard.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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