Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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You are your own stories.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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