For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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