Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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