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 women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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All important things are hard.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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