Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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