And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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