He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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 really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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’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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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