But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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