Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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