Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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