Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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