If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You are your best thing.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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