I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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