In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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