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.
TONI MORRISONI’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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