Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISONIf 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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All important things are hard.
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