Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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