A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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