You are your own stories.
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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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