Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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