I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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You are your own stories.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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