In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your best thing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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