You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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You are your best thing.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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