For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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