In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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