What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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 water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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