For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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