I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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