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.
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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