I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You are your own stories.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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