There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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 women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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