And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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