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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.

Toni Morrison

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISON

Allow Design Paradise People
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON

Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISON

Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON

Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON

Book Writing
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON

Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON

Value Women Yourself
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISON

Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON

Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISON

Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISON

Friendship Giving Pieces
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISON

Awake Door Misery Walk
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISON

Kindness Ourselves Sister Special

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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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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