Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You are your own stories.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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