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.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your best thing.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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