Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still 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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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