Lonely was much better than alone.
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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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