Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All important things are hard.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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