Love is never any better than the lover.
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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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