He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your own stories.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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All important things are hard.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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