He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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