If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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