I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONDon’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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