The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You are your own stories.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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