For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You are your best thing.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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