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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.

Toni Morrison

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISON

Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
TONI MORRISON

Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
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.
TONI MORRISON

Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISON

Beautiful Women
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISON

Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON

Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISON

Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISON

Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON

Air Inspirational One Liner Ride Surrender

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