Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONYou need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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You are your own stories.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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