Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You are your own stories.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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