If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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