Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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