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.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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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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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 free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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