Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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