Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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