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.
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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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