We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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’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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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