Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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