The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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