You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISONRacism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONYou don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONThe best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONFreeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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 MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISON