He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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 always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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