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 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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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