For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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You are your own stories.
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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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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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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You are your best thing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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