What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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