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.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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