Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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All important things are hard.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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You are your own stories.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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