For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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 pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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