I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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