Lonely was much better than alone.
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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You are your best thing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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