For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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All important things are hard.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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