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.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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