It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
You are your best thing - Toni Morrison
You are your best thing
- Toni Morrison
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are - Toni Morrison
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevole… - Toni Morrison
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevole…
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free,… - Toni Morrison
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free,…
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it… - Toni Morrison
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it…
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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 civiliza… - Toni Morrison
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 civiliza…
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. - Toni Morrison
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. - Toni Morrison
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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