For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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You are your own stories.
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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.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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