All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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