I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You are your best thing.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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