I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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