You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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