A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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