There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All important things are hard.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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