You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All important things are hard.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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