There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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