Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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