Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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What a woman. What a life.
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You are your own stories.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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