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.
TONI MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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