I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONThere is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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