Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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