Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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