Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You are your own stories.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You are your best thing.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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