Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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