It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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’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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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All important things are hard.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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What a woman. What a life.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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