Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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