Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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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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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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