He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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