I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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