The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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 boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Wicked 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.
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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.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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