If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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