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.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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