I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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