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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.

Toni Morrison

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON

Country White
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISON

Dreams Fashion Nightmare
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.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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.
TONI MORRISON

Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Work
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON

Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
TONI MORRISON

Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISON

Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON

Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISON

Love One Liner
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON

Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISON

House Place Writing
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISON

Believe Confidence Ending Inspirational Start

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’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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