Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONThere is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You are your own stories.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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