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 MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You are your own stories.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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