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.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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