All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONIf 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You are your best thing.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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