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.
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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All important things are hard.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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