I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISON
You are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISON