In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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