If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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