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.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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