Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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 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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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