Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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If 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.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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