Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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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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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