Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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