We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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