There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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