What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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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 have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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