Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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