All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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