Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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 enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You are your own stories.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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