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.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All important things are hard.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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