I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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 sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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 need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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