Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You are your best thing.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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