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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

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON

Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
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
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISON

House Place Writing
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
TONI MORRISON

Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON

Feeling Safe Writing
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
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
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

Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
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.
TONI MORRISON

Concept Enemy Men World
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON

Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISON

Art Life Wait
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON

Book Writing
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISON

Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISON

Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save

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