I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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