You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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