I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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There 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.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You are your best thing.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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