For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You are your best thing.
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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 have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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