In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONI’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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You are your best thing.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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All important things are hard.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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