I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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