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 MORRISONYou are your own stories.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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