Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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All important things are hard.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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