Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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