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 MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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You are your best thing.
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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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