The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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